Reversible glove.



PATENTED APR. 12, 1904'.

H. S. SIMPSON. REVERSIBLE GLOVE.

YAPPLIUATION FILED nno;1o, 1065?] N0 MODEL.

I attorney Patented April 12, 1904.

.NITED STATES 'ATENT FMCE.

HORATIO S. SIMPSON, OF MANKATO, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO W. B. WOOD, OF MANKATO, KANSAS.

REVERSIBLE GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,986, dated April 12, 1904. Application filed DeceinberlO, 1903. Serial No. 184,645. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORATIO S. SIMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mankato, in the county of Jewell and State of Kansas, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Gloves and Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hand-coverings, more especially designed for those engaged in laboring occupations subv ecting coverings of this class to a great amount of wear.

The particular object of the invention is to produce an article at a minimum cost relative to the manufacture thereof, the extreme simplicity of same enabling the attainment of the object desired. 7

The glove or mitten embodied in this invention is reversible, being adapted for use by either hand, thereby increasing the length of time of its use.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of theinvention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aplan view of a glove constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the general outline of the blank from which the hand-sections of the glove or mitten are formed, the wristband being spaced therefrom. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the thumbblank. Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the finger portions of the glove, showing the manner of attaching the gores thereto. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the glove-blank.

Corresponding and like parts arereferred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The general form of the blank, which is of any of the commonly-used 'materials from which gloves are usually made, is the same in both the glove and mitten coverings. This blank, which is designated 1, is composed of hand-sections 2, and extending from the upper horizontal edge portion of the blank 1 and exactly intermediate the side edges the said blank is cut away, as shown at 3. The thumb l is stitched to the edge portions adjacent the cut-away portion 3 of the blank 1, and in constructing the glove or mitten the blank is folded upon a vertical line about intermediate the sides thereof, which line descriptively intersects the recessed portion 3, as will be readily seen. In that the glove or mitten blank is cut away exactly intermediate the side edges thereof, the thumb 4 is so disposed as to be equally upon one as the other, so that the covering when fitted to the hand will be as comfortable upon one hand as the other. 7

In hand-coverings of the type to which this invention especially relates the thumb portion of the glove or mitten must needs be very securely attached to the body of the covering, owing to the great amount of strain and wear thereon. It is therefore contemplated that.

the thumb 4t be secured both to the body of the hand-covering and to the wristband 5 or cuif, should the term be applied to a glove. The attachment of the thumb 4 to the wristband 5 is readily secured by cutting the upper portion of the blank 1 away, as at 3, this enabling the wristband to be stitched to the upper edge portions of the thumb-blank, as clearly seen in Fig. 1. The thumb-blank i is of approximately V form and is folded about intermediate side edges thereof preparatory to attaching same to the body of the handcovering. The essential difference between the mitten-blank and the glove-blank is in the formation of the finger portions of the latter, the blank being provided with vertical slits to provide finger portions, which are indicated at 6. Gores 7 between'the fingers 6 would be used.

The construction of the glove or mitten is one involving an-extreme simplicity, and this is of importance in this class of hand-coverings for the reason hereinbefore set forth.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A hand-covering comprising a body or hand blank composed of corresponding hand-sections of like form having an approximately V-shaped out-away portion extending from the upper horizontal edge portion thereof and exactly intermediate the side edges thereof, said hand-sections being folded upon each other upon a line intermediate the side edges thereof and the sides of the V-shaped cutaway portion thereof, a thumb-blank of approximately V shape and composed of upper and lower sides of the same size andoutline, said thumb-blank having the upper and lower sides aforesaid folded upon each other and secured to the body hand-blank at the V-shaped cut-away portion, and a wristband attached to the upper edge portion of the hand-seetion and the upper edge portions of the thumb sides.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HORATIO S. SIMPSON. [L. s] Witnesses:

B. F. VANDEVENTER, L. J. GOULD. 

